Re: My local Missouri morons are at it again.

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:29:52 -0600, Jo Schaper
<jonot34schaperat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

State bill prefiled for the legislative session 2008:

Current Bill Summary

"SB 716 - This act provides that the official dating standard used by
the state of Missouri shall be A.D., or Anno Domini, and B.C., or Before
Christ. Neither the state, nor any political subdivision, shall use any
other designation."

(Obviously, this simple wording does not take into consideration the
fact that state universities and the
geology/environmental/archaeological divisions of the state have a need
of non-Americanized Christian-centric age/date schemes, much less people
who follow other calendars (like observant Jews, Muslims and Orthodox
sects.)

Interestingly the fellow who filed this has has a J.D., (law degree) and
a wife who is a Ph.D. in something. Never let a little education get in
the way of a ludicrous proposal!

Yes, I've already made these points to my local State-Senate-critter.


A few years back a couple Malaysian states declared that any documents
with dates other than the official Muslim years would not be
considered legal. I wonder how that turned out.
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